Twitter has an interesting new thread. In it, the user asked to share the non-obvious dangers of household items.
Are there chemists and physicists?
Write a thread what are the non-obvious things that can kill us if we are sloppy- anatoly nogotochki💅 (@A_Kapustin) February 29, 2020
Almost 700 comments have already gathered under the original post. Here are just a few of the most popular and unexpected answers.
If you notice that you still get on the skin, it is better to rinse not just with water, but with a weak acid solution (diluted vinegar, lemon juice)
- Safonova Evgeniya (@safevgal) February 29, 2020
But the problem is not difficult to avoid if you remove the core with seeds from the apple.
Three glasses of fresh apple can kill. For people of 60 kg weight, ground seeds from 8 apples contain a lethal dose of cyanide. I never drink apple juice
- Margarita (@MargoManila) February 29, 2020
It turned out, the grandmother, dragged him three-liter cans of carrot juice and made him drink everything in order to "clean the liver from toxins," she read in the newspaper. The worse it was for him, the more juice. I almost killed him.
- Lolichka (@Loly_girl) February 29, 2020
If you add essential oil to the ultrasonic humidifier, then the ultrasonic membrane will break the oil to the smallest particles and they will enter the lungs, forming an oil film - there were even deaths. Although the manufacturers of humidifiers always write that oils cannot be added, the reason is not explained.
- Andrey Zinch (@AndreyZinch) February 29, 2020
Flour, icing sugar, milk powder and other organic powders are explosive when dispersed inside an enclosed space.
- Stepan Sadovnykov (@sadovnikovss) February 29, 2020
When buying coffee in cups, remove the plastic cap. Because it is made of polymers that, when in contact with hot or alcohol, release phenol, styrene, formaldehyde, etc. (depending on the polymer from which the cap is made)
- Sir Cat (@Feigelman_V) February 29, 2020
The poppy seed bun can test positive for opiates due to the trace amounts of morphine. Therefore, drivers cannot eat anything with poppy seeds - you will not prove that you are not a camel.
- Lolichka (@Loly_girl) February 29, 2020
And to check the presence of a polarizing filter on the glasses, you need to look through them at the LCD monitor and turn it on its side. If, when turning to the side, the picture on the monitor is not visible through glasses, then there is a filter. If nothing changes, there is no filter.
- 3.5 Antøna (@ _de1337ed) February 29, 2020
Carbon monoxide, it is not obvious to many how quickly and imperceptibly in a closed room it displaces oxygen. If you see an open fire in a room and you cannot extinguish it in 15 seconds, you must fire from there immediately, without hesitation. It is not fire that is dangerous, but loss of consciousness.
- Andrey Mima (@amima) February 29, 2020
For the sake of interest, you can shine a disco black lamp on your grandmother's sideboard. If the sugar bowl or cake bowl glows bright green, congratulations! You are the owner of Soviet uranium glass. The phonite is not strong and mostly alpha particles.
- Berdin Lazurskiy (@a_you_my) February 29, 2020
In an accident, people cannot be pulled out (you will tear the spinal cord if there is a spinal fracture), this has already been written about here. In the car, so that there is no spark, it is necessary to remove the terminals from the battery: first the red plus, then the black minus.
- Lolichka (@Loly_girl) February 29, 2020
A lot of posts are related to alcohol.
Alcohol and bathing can provoke vascular problems up to a heart attack and stroke. Alcohol tells the vessels to expand and the water to shrink. And the situation becomes unpredictable.
- Lolichka (@Loly_girl) February 29, 2020
If you drink alcohol for several days, then limit fatty foods. You can catch pancreatic necrosis with high mortality. If you survive, there will be almost no color in life.
- Alary Anti (@Alaryst) February 29, 2020
Another important infa - do not take paracetamol and any paracetamol-containing drugs like Teraflu with alcohol. Can you drive away
- Ivanov (@tmuscorpion) February 29, 2020
Aspirin is not allowed for children. They can die from Reye's syndrome. The probability is small, but the winning in this lottery is too big.
- Lolichka (@Loly_girl) February 29, 2020
And with medicines.
Drinking medicines with something other than water / not drinking at all is deadly. Because it is not known exactly how the active substance will work when mixed with different liquids, and not washed down medicine can stick in the esophagus and, dissolving there, cause a chemical burn.
- Silence of this world (@silenceinworld) February 29, 2020
Antibiotics should not be drunk for less than five days (except for azithromycin, it accumulates). “The burden on the body” does not decrease from this, but the bacteria can get used to the antibiotic and get a stable infection, which is extremely expensive to treat, so a hundred thousand.
- Lolichka (@Loly_girl) February 29, 2020
Medicines without a special groove cannot be divided into parts, since the active substance in such medicines is mixed not evenly and it is not known what concentration you will take, and whether the medicine will dissolve in the right place and will be absorbed.
- Silence of this world (@silenceinworld) February 29, 2020
Grapefruit contains substances that slow down the work of certain liver enzymes. These same enzymes destroy some drugs. Therefore, you can catch an unexpected overdose. The instructions for the drugs almost do not write about the interaction with grapefruit. The term from the package is also considered
- Lolichka (@Loly_girl) February 29, 2020
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